Artificer Digital The Artificer's Grimoire

Sources

Every edition starts the same way: a crawl over a curated source list, supplemented by targeted web search for the gaps the feeds don't cover. This page is the source list — the publications, repositories, and academic categories the pipeline watches, and the searches that fill in around them. For how those raw items become a digest, see the pipeline description on the About page.

RSS & Atom feeds

Twenty feeds are fetched and parsed every crawl, grouped here by how heavily each one drives the digest. Titles link to the publication; the pipeline reads their feeds behind the scenes.

Primary

Valuable

Supplementary

GitHub repositories & organizations

Eleven repositories are monitored for new releases — and, for some, for discussion threads and commit activity — alongside four organizations watched for new projects. Titles link to GitHub.

Autonomous coding agents

Agent frameworks

Protocols & standards

Spec-driven development

Context engineering

Organizations watched for new repositories

Academic papers — arXiv

Each crawl harvests the previous seven days of submissions from arXiv via its OAI-PMH bulk interface, across seven computer-science categories:

That raw harvest is large, so each paper's title and abstract is matched against a set of keyword themes; only papers that match are kept, and the match assigns the paper its tags and priority. The themes are: context engineering for agents, autonomous coding agents, multi-agent software development, spec-driven development, LLM agent orchestration, AI agent safety and governance, agent evaluation and benchmarks, and retrieval-augmented generation for agents.

Curated references

Beyond the live crawl, a small set of landmark articles and reports forms the background reading the digest returns to when a current development echoes an earlier idea.

LLM-assisted web search

Feeds and repositories cover most of the ground, but not all of it — some of the most important sources don't publish a feed at all. To close those gaps, the crawl runs a handful of targeted web searches every week:

Separately, the Scouts — the Grimoire's deep-dive briefings — are research-driven from the start: each one runs at least five topic-shaped searches and fetches the full text of the most important sources rather than working from headlines.

Search results are useful but slippery: a result gives a headline and a link, not the article itself. The pipeline's discipline is that every source a claim draws on has to be captured as a real, fetched source — never a quote pulled from a URL or a search snippet. That rule, and the failure modes it guards against, are described on the About page.

Suggest a source

This list is meant to evolve, and good suggestions have changed it before. If you know a feed, repository, researcher, or publication that belongs here — something with genuine signal on harness engineering, context engineering, agent orchestration, agentic protocols, autonomous coding agents, governance, or spec-driven development — send it to grimoire@artificerdigital.com. The same address is where to report anything that looks wrong in an edition.

— Tim